2018高级会计师《职称英语》基础班：阅读理解7 (2)

5.When we say that services account for close to one-half of consumer expenditures, we still grossly understate the economic importance of services. These figures do not include the vast amounts spent for business services. By all indications, spending for business services has increased even more rapidly than spending for consumer services.

如果我们说服务几乎占了消费开支的一半时，我们仍然没能充分表明服务业在经济中举足轻重的地位。这些数字没有包括大量的用于商业性服务的开支。根据所有的迹象来看，商业性服务的开支比消费服务的开支增长得更快些。

1.The first paragraph intends to tell us that_____

A.services are more important than industries producing tangible goods

B.services are important

C.service jobs make more money than other jobs

D.services are more comfortable than other jobs

【答案】B

【解析】主旨题，依据文段内容与文章标题来判断。

【出处】第一段

Importance of Services

P1 The United States has moved beyond the industrial economy stage to the point where it has become the world’s first service economy. Almost three-fourths of the nonfarm labor force is employed in service. Also, service jobs typically hold up better during a recession than do jobs in industries producing tangible goods.

美国已经跨越了工业经济的阶段，成为世界上第一个服务型经济的国家。几乎3/4的非农业劳动力受雇于服务业。服务业的产值在国民生产总值中所占比例已超过2/3。而且，服务业的工作往往要比从事生产有形商品的工作更能经受经济萧条的打击。

2.Between 1966 and 1986, the United States created about____

A.32.4 million service jobs

B.32.4 million jobs

C.22 million service jobs

D.19.8 million service jobs

【答案】A

【解析】关键词Between 1966 and 1986，从原文找答案。

【出处】第二段

During the 20-year period of 1966 to 1986, about 36 million new jobs were created in the United States—far more than in Japan and Western Europe combined. About 90 percent of these jobs were in service industries.

划线部分意思是：从1966年至1986年这20年间，美国新增加了大约3600万个工作,这些工作约有90%是服务性工作(36*90%=32.4m)。

3.Many economists, business and labor leaders and politicians believe that_____

A.most of the explosive growth in service employment is not in low-paying jobs

B.most of the fast growth in service employment is in low-paying jobs

C.manufacturing jobs are disappearing because they are no longer attractive

D.most of the fast growth in the service sector is in high-paying jobs

【答案】B

【解析】关键词economists, business and labor leaders

【出处】第三段

Moreover, most of this explosive growth in services employment is not in low-paying jobs, contrary to the beliefs of many economists, business and labor leaders, and politicians.

而且，服务行业就业率的这种爆炸性增长大部分并不是低薪的工作，这与许多经济学家、商人、工会首脑和政界人士的观点相反。

4.The importance of services can be shown____

A.only by consumer expenditure

B.only by money spent on business services

C.by money spent on business services as well as on consumer services

D.only by money spent on food and housing

【答案】C

【解析】关键词The importance of services

【出处】后一段

When we say that services account for close to one-half of consumer expenditures, we still grossly understate the economic importance of services. These figures do not include the vast amounts spent for business services. …

划线部分的意思是：如果我们说服务几乎占了消费开支的一半时，我们仍然没能充分表明服务业在经济中举足轻重的地位。这些数字没有包括大量的用于商业性服务的开支。

5.What does the writer of this passage disapprove of regarding services now?

A.Their fast growth

B.Their decline

C.Their prices

D.Their quality

【答案】C

【解析】作者观点题。

【出处】第四段

A drawback of the service economy boom is that the prices of most services have been going up at a considerably faster rate than the prices of most tangible products.

划线部分的意思是：服务型公司繁荣发展的一个缺点是，大部分服务的价格比大部分有形商品的价格上涨要快得多。

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